TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran center-left candidate Salvador Nasralla said on Sunday it was clear there had been fraud “before, during and after” a bitterly contested Nov. 26 presidential election and that he was headed to Washington to meet with U.S. and other officials.

Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, speaks during a news conference with former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya after a meeting with electoral observers of the Organization of American States (OAS) at a hotel in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, December 12, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

Nasralla’s comments, made in a video posted on Facebook, followed a decision by the nation’s electoral tribunal to declare conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the vote. The announcement sparked calls for renewed street protests.

Nasralla said he had meetings planned with the U.S. State Department and the Organization of American States.